Marcel ProustBy EDMUND WHITE
Reviewed by PETER ACKROYD "It requires the skill and intuition of an imaginative artist to make these aspects cohere within a single and living portrait . . . If there is a weakness, it is a tendency
upon White's part to assert the gay life and consciousness of Proust . . ."
Featured Author: Edmund WhiteFirst Chapter: 'Marcel Proust'

Selected Letters of Vanessa BellEdited by REGINA MARLER
Reviewed by MARGOT PETERS "Vanessa's letters have none of Virginia's subtle reasoning, sly innuendo, skittish rhythms and divine wit. At the same time they have little of Virginia's snobbery,
arch self-consciousness and teasing cruelty."

Holy Hunger: A Memoir of Desire By MARGARET BULLITT-JONAS
Reviewed by ALEXANDRA HALL "Insightful and instructive . . . However, Bullitt-Jonas's endless referrals to the misery of her condition, not to mention her sentimental and overblown language . .
. ultimately limit how much the book can teach us."
First Chapter: 'Holy Hunger'

Heart of a Wife: The Diary of a Southern Jewish Woman By HELEN JACOBUS APTE. Edited by MARCUS D. ROSENBAUM
Reviewed by MARGALIT FOX ". . . an insightful record of Southern Jewish bourgeois life in the first half of the 20th century . . . Apte displays the gifts of a first-rate memoirist . . ."

The Jew of New YorkBy BEN KATCHOR
Reviewed by J. HOBERMAN "In his new graphic novel, Katchor excavates an even earlier metropolis . . . [This] is not only something to read but to ponder -- an object nearly as strange and striking as
the story it contains."
Selections from 'The Jew of New York' (15 illustrations)

Mara and Dann: An AdventureBy DORIS LESSING
Reviewed by MICHAEL UPCHURCH "All the necessary elements are here, often dazzling in their invention, but only intermittently do they coalesce into tension-filled narrative . . . With greater attention
to character detail it could perhaps have sustained its length."
Featured Author: Doris Lessing

The Dream MistressBy JENNY DISKI
Reviewed by DIANA POSTLETHWAITE "Elegantly wrought and unsettling . . . [T]he distinctive power of Diski's novel lies in the striking way she intermingles a tone of steel-trap rationality with
potent images from the oozy underbelly of the subconscious."
First Chapter: 'The Dream Mistress'